G'day all,

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Matthew Bulley wrote:

> In a message dated 97-08-29 05:31:39 EDT, jpnicholls@LUCENT.COM writes:
>
> << The terms Vanagon and EuroVan are to my knowledge exclusively North
>  > American labels. They are unknown over here (in the old world). They
>  are
>  > genericly called  'Transporter'. The 8/9 seater versions are sometimes
>
>  > labeled  'Bus'  and the more luxerious versions 'Caravelle'.
>
>  And in South Africa 'Microbus' and 'Kombi'.  Are these the original
>  German names - Helmut? >>
>
Here in Australia we have the Transporter (I have a 2.4 deisel one) and
the Caravelle.  We used to have kombi but the import duties these attract
are tose for a passenger car so they only import the plain van and the
Caravelle.
Reece,
81 Passat GLD
96 Transporter 2.4D